Wordpress on Linux in the Amazon Cloud with Mac


In my previous article outlining how to setup an instance of Wordpress on Amazon’s EC2 Cloud hosting a Linux server with Mac, I described a single website setup for the server. In an addendum to that article, I’m going to give short instructions on setting up multiple websites on that instance using apache’s virtual hosts.
This weekend I decided to make a switch from serving files from my server, to using Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). It was surprisingly painless, and, as I’ll show below, can be quickly setup to integrate very well with Wordpress.
As a result of the recent Wordpress 3 release, I’ve jumped ship and sent my site over to a new platform. This is a bit of a change for me since it’s the first time I’ve trusted any of my personal sites on WordPress.